playback (codec) issue (?)

[masterblue_hq]

two different questions, so the one i'll post here, the other one in 'advanced conversion'...

got an avi file that plays back with wrong colours, appearently spread over four quadrants, funny thing is: it played well before... it might have been a windows update that killed *something* but haven't got a clue... might be a codec issue as well...

funniest thing: it plays well in virtual dub, but not under the media player or for example cinemascope

help would be appreciated

(the other question is related: how to convert to something that does not give this problem?)

[DieselBoy]

i know how to fix your problem, what i did was save the file using virtual dub but then i realized that the audio would be off. so i used EO Video to convert the audio into an avi and then i used an avi to wav extractor to get the auido file to become a wave. then i went back to virtual dub and loaded the video, then i went to sound and used wav audio and selected the wav file that i created. then i saved the file as an avi and it worked. oh by the way, with me it was an xvid codec, is yours an xvid?

[masterblue_hq]

well, that's a complex way to get around it

i can fix it this way: decompress the audio using avi2audio decompress (from avi2vcd, otherwise the audio is off) then load it into vdub and save it into some format... but that means recoding, which is not my intention...

hmmm.... file properties shows: DIVXMPG4 V3
vdub calls it a DivX MPEG-4 Low-Motion (audio is MP3)
the fourcc in the file appears to be DIV3

haven't got a clue if it is divx or not now, but i strongly suspect that some recent windows upgrades have killed a codec... better de-and re-install some of them again...

[masterblue_hq]

solved it